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Mailbox 2.0 for iOS Predicts What You Want to Do With Emails

The iOS version of the popular email app Mailbox rolled out new features on Monday, supposedly making it an even more powerful tool for achieving that coveted Inbox Zero.

Mailbox 2.0 is the app's first major update since it was acquired by Dropbox nearly a year ago. It includes a new auto-swipe feature that predicts what you want to do with a message before opening it and adds integration with Dropbox accounts.

Auto-swipe, which was first announced earlier this month by Dropbox CEO Drew Houston, learns from frequently-repeated actions and subsequently predicts your actions. For example, if you always delete the same daily deals emails, or mute threads from certain groups, the app learns these patterns and will perform these actions automatically.

"Auto-swipe is something we wanted to release with the first version of Mailbox, but it’s only with recent improvements to our infrastructure that such a smart service has been possible," the company wrote in a blog post.

The newest version of Mailbox also features new integration with Dropbox. User preferences, including auto-swipe settings, are now synced with Dropbox accounts, so settings can be preserved across multiple devices and platforms.

Mailbox 2.0 for iOS syncs users' preferences through Dropbox and features auto-swipe, which remembers frequently-repeated actions.

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